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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by danielfgom to c/[email protected]

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LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it's based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based.

If you've been disappointed by what the Linux corporations have been doing lately or don't like the all-snap future that Ubuntu has opened, then this is the distro for you.

I'm running it as my daily driver and it works exactly like the regular Mint so you don't lose anything. Clem and team have done a great job, even newbies could use Debian now.

Personally I think LMDE is the future of Linux as Ubuntu goes it's own way, and this is a good thing for Mint and the Linux community. Let's get back to community distros and move away from the corps.

EDIT: LMDE is 64bit only. There is no 32bit option.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Been using mint for a while on my main machine and I'm not keen on doing a reinstall, but the next time I do I'll definitely be looking at Debian edition.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you don't have Nvidia gpu, then LMDE is better. It is slightly snappier and boots slightly faster.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Oh dang. It sucks to hear that my 10 year old GPU is still poorly supported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I have a very old Nvidia GPU and am on LMDE5. The official legacy driver works fine for me. Can't speak for the open-source one.

Going to assume that LMDE6 will be similar when I get around to upgrading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, the thing is I don't have Nvidia gpu but it is a general rule since LMDE doesn't ship with the driver manager as the "regular" Mint does.

[–] merthyr1831 1 points 9 months ago

That's because it doesn't need to use the Ubuntu drivers. I'm pretty sure it's intentional (if a bit less user friendly). I wish distros could come up with a universal(ish) driver app.

[–] synceDD -3 points 9 months ago

Why would anyone support an end of life gpu lmfao

[–] merthyr1831 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LMDE has proprietary driver repos afaik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, for NoVideo.